MINISTER LAWRENCE’S OFFENSIVE AND DIVISIVE REMARKS

Dec 13, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,

The Minister of Health promise to give jobs to her party supporters and her search for a Spanish-speaking doctor is tantamount to the proverbial search for the needle in a haystack. If this is the minister’s position on jobs then why should they be paid by the taxpayers?
Giving jobs to party supporters is unfair to the rest of people who have every right to a job. After all, it was not only her Party supporters who have catapulted her government into office.
Giving jobs only to PNC supporters is just the type of discrimination that should not be practised by public officials who have taken an oath to govern in the interest of all. Even though giving jobs only to party supporters has been the practise of both political parties over the years, it is biased, offensive and counterproductive; it highlights a troubling mindset that has Guyana languishing in the doldrums as it remains the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Six months ago, a contract to supply drugs to the Health sector was sole sourced to the New York-based company, HDM. The person in question is not a re-migrant but has claimed-re-migrant status in order to deceive the government. So much for giving contracts to those who donated to the party.
Back to Ms. Lawrence whose apology is both insincere and comical. This head-hunter has a spin that is parallel to Rumpelstiltskin who told the King that his daughter has the powers to spin straw into gold. Ms. Lawrence is full of platitudes (some people call it bull****) in declaring that she is fighting for justice for all the races.
Did she fight for the vast improvements in the Health Sector where persons die of belly pain in waiting rooms? She presides over a country with one of the highest infant mortality and maternal death rates in the world.
Let us suppose that a fire starts in her house; by inference would she tell the 911 operators that she only wants PNC supporters to put out the blaze?
As the Roman philosopher, Publilius Syrus, declared, I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Did Minister Lawrence regret her silly and distasteful remarks? Only she knows!

Leyland Chitlall Roopnaraine
New York

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